She was in the throws of those gaspy hiccupy breaths that come after you've had a big overblown crying session. |
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Daphne lifts her chin in an overblown attempt at hauteur and heads into the closet to fetch her coat. |
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For years I have been using the verb bloviate in reference to speaking in an overblown self-importance. |
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Many of the digital images in this overblown cautionary tale remind us of humanity's relatively insignificant place in the universe. |
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At its worst, and this is most common, it goes hand in hand with extraordinary, overblown vanity. |
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After my rant last week about the downright overblown nature of Premiership football, a coltish newsroom colleague collared me. |
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It was a sprawling double album, which was, depending who you talk to, an overblown self-indulgence or the best thing he'd ever put on record. |
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Some liberal arguments about the significance of this case seem tendentious and overblown. |
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Yes, I mean, even though, I mean, the media has overblown some of the problems a fair bit. |
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The tambourin has a wide dynamic range, and the galoubet is relatively gentle in its lower register, and shrill in its high, overblown octave. |
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That album was bloated, overblown and stuffed full of guitar solos and a misplaced sense of its own importance. |
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To say that the music is overblown and pretentious is rather an understatement. |
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These narratives were overblown exaggerations, but polemicists employed their hyperbole to further political ends. |
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Successful operas have powerful, involving stories, even if they're overblown, rhetorical and, indeed, operatic. |
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She saw Clint as an aging pretty-boy, a gifted entertainer with overblown artistic pretensions. |
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Of course, the fears of the critics may be hysterical or overblown, but in that case, one wonders why they can't just come out and tell us that. |
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Sun-baked window displays were decked out with extravagant fairy lights and overblown decorations. |
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In contrast, some of the other liberal arguments about the significance of this case seem tendentious and overblown. |
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Their behaviour and pretensions were overblown but they put out a good deal of material that retains vitality more than 30 years later. |
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They're overlong, overblown and over-acted, sure, but they're pretty entertaining nonetheless. |
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Simliarly, the film is amazingly effective for a fairly overblown Hollywoodization of a simple, lovely original. |
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Yet, the New York Times fails to make that distinction and pretends that the the desperation was overblown. |
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Some were suggesting that his interest was overblown to distract attention from the company's poor trading statement. |
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Andante maestoso was not an overblown anticlimax but the real apotheosis of Tchaikovsky's musical argument. |
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Of course, someone had to file a lawsuit, which serves only to elevate this already overblown subject to new heights of lunacy. |
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The overly ornate and silver embossed font for the title and author name is ugly and overblown. |
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The Prince was so sold on his own divinity that he used to make the longest, most seriously overblown entrances to boxing arenas in ring history. |
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Following the overblown success of his previous film, it seems karmic that his new one opened without a spectacular advertising campaign. |
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Realistic threats may be exaggerated or overblown, in which case correct and balanced information can be used to reduce them. |
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That, if it's not too overblown a metaphor, is how I feel if I've sent a lot of email. |
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It is a moment so bloated and overblown, there is nothing to do but laugh out loud. |
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The drama primarily derived from the picture's human elements rather than overblown pyrotechnics. |
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So while I think this is a cause for concern, it's not cause for the kind of overblown rhetoric I've seen around the web. |
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Dark, menacing and overblown to the point of daftness, it's just like the real Wuthering Heights. |
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But we are entitled to expect something better than the overblown claims and ignominious climbdowns that are their hallmark. |
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While we study the pictures we are assaulted by an overblown, portentous, bombastic Bernard Herrmann score that borders on self-parody. |
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Sometimes I read responses that seem overblown and pretentious, and they make me wince. |
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But he was trotted out for the media and expertly defused what was an overblown tiff. |
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While some of these images are serious, others poke fun at this period's overblown piousness. |
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But his account of the possibilities for response to this inheritance is hyperbolically overblown. |
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Humans show false strength with exaggerated postures and overblown words. |
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The overblown Joisey rambunctiousness — and, for me, the Frankie Valli sound — can be corny and tough to take. |
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However, don't think Queen Mary 2 is another clone for the lumbering, simpering, overblown jolly boats wallowing and waddling around the world's sunshine destinations. |
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Boustany echoed an idea that many came to believe, that talk of doomsday was overblown. |
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Always using the same room with picture window as a backdrop, Ta Men stage hysterically overblown scenes of life in the big city. |
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The message is not that the conversation about Waco should be overblown, hypercritical of an entire culture, or full of racial subtext. |
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But as these athletes make such revelations, critics say the hubbub is overblown. |
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Has Maiden's overblown, fantastical imagery been a product of this Harris approach? |
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More likely they'll cast a long shadow over the region, standing as an omnipresent overblown monument to the hoteliers' greed. |
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In an interview on Sky News, Palmer said the government had overblown its rhetoric about the country's debt levels. |
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Which seems a little overblown, when most of the feminists I know just want, you know, equality. |
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I suggest that the fee the credit card companies charge small businesses is overblown. |
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Instead, the Conservatives respond with insulting and overblown rhetoric to dismiss any other idea or perspective on the economy. |
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It is a shame because we are here to serve our country, not to engage in overblown political manoeuvring. |
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People still have it firmly in their heads that everything that comes out of Europe is irrelevant, overblown in scope and centralistic. |
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Those early worries were overblown, but the market has been affected on this side of the border. |
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However, employers concerns about workers just using the web for personal reasons may be overblown. |
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I find more often than not, those kinds of issues get overblown by the media and the crop eventually gets pulled off the field in decent shape. |
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I am worried that Europe is again in danger of creating an overblown bureaucracy that is incapable of taking action. |
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But, the image of teens as immature, fun seeking and irresponsible is overblown and inaccurate. |
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When the party of Clark introduced it in 1988 he called it the Atlantic Canada overblown agency. |
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That growth was due to the steep rise in the value of their assets, which subsequently proved to be overblown. |
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Funny enough, my mom and dad soon began watching the show with me, realizing that their initial concerns were overblown. |
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But his stock-in-trade is moody, gargatuanly stringed incidental music for hysterically overblown movies like Moulin Rouge and Plunkett and MacLean. |
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They called his charges exaggerated or said it was all overblown. |
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Much of his poetry is technically weak and diffuse, marred by careless versification, awkward shifts in diction, overblown rhetoric, and homiletic digressions. |
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The issue of alleged nuclear proliferation, though not condonable, was also overblown by the West and a section of the country's Press with a purpose. |
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But Dr. Rebecca Brightman, an ob-gyn in private practice, cautioned that such fears are overblown. |
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It was an emotional speech, but a delightfully graceful, rather than unctuous and overblown, one. |
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Yet a moment like this seems so overblown, so grandiloquent, and so self-consciously heroic that it simply stuns me. |
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I suspect he chose the Dred Scott comparison precisely because of its overblown, grandiose nature. |
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Still, it would be nice to see the flesh and bone brethren work up something terrifically tinseled, not overblown with effects or false feelings of Feliz Navidad. |
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The company had intended the launch to be the usual raucous, overblown tub-thumping spectacle, but subsequent to last week's events a far more sober event will be appropriate. |
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We should avoid the overblown statements and tub-thumping oratory. |
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It's all a far cry from the formality and overblown camp of Sketch. |
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In satire, things tend to be exaggerated and overblown for effect. |
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Yet it's not pretentiously overblown nor dragged down by fanboy baggage. |
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The heroine's honour is unjustly impugned, but her alleged crime is such a peccadillo that the emotions associated with it seem ludicrously overblown. |
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Few human pursuits can conjure up such overblown expectations, fanned by holiday brochure photo-spreads showing impossibly white beaches domed by suspiciously azure skies. |
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Her poignant sounds fuel her husband's overblown images, forming an increasingly overheated circuit of baroque incommunicability that can only result in violence. |
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It would have been nice to get a full live orchestra playing along to the film as it was playing, but practicalities no doubt get in the way of such overblown ideas. |
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But now, 30 years later, he seems to be doing the same thing except that this time he's accepting the new conventional wisdom that the domino theory was overblown. |
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What we in the opposition can provide in the way of assistance is to point out just how overblown the image of Canada is as far as international aid is concerned. |
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Marlowe's eyes trailed slick video covers posted outside each, a pornocopia of pouting lips, inflated breasts, and overblown cocks. |
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Therefore, I want to reassure Canadians, in spite of the overblown, overheated partisan rhetoric they will hear from the Liberals today, that there is not the cause for worry that the Liberals would like to drum up. |
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Some in this country have already begun to say that talk of war is overblown and irresponsible and that we must instead address the root causes of terrorism. |
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Talk of a knowledge-based new economy is overblown, but there is indeed an ongoing shift toward jobs requiring higher levels of education and skills. |
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It was Darius''s son Xerxes''s eyes that had the stink of destiny about them,remarks Gorgo, exemplifying the overblown floweriness of the script. |
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Firstly, we have overblown public assistance. |
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To make a feed-in tariff work, it has to be hefty but not overblown. |
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The Japanese yen traded near a 7 week high against the Dollar amid speculation asset prices are overblown, boosting demand for the relative safety of the Japanese currency. |
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The potential negative effects of a shutdown were real but overblown, especially when weighed against the potential disaster posed by Obamacare's implementation. |
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Pirlo, who did not even make it off the bench on Sunday, has not made the brightest of starts but the speculation that he might not extend his contract past the end of this year is likely overblown. |
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Bjorn Lomborg, a statistician at Arhus University in Denmark, says that many evaluations of tropical rainforest devastation are overblown. |
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Specific word choices may cause some readers to accuse the authors of using overblown, foreign, and even neologistic words. |
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It's a balance that is easily upset by overblown expectations. |
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It is quite pathetic to have all the rhetoric, all the overblown stuff, all the language, the gimmicks, the class warfare and the character assassination. |
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The deliberate and overblown divergence of Liberal foreign policy from that of the U. S. has served the domestic image of the Liberal Party well at times. |
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However, in our opinion these concerns are manifestly overblown. |
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But I also suspect the rampant recessionary fears are overblown. |
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Some lib Dem supporters sought to dismiss the allegations as overblown. |
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His writing, behind the entertaining, overblown descriptions and swaggering waggery, seems to come from a deeper level of his soul and therefore feels so much more enduring. |
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While there may be individual cases of this actually happening, ultimately his charge is wildly overblown and overly traditionalistic. |
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Concerns about reaching storage capacity appear to be overblown. |
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John Boyne's novelisation of a classic true crime is overlong and often overblown, but it is a fascinating story. |
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But lower housing prices are not a certainty and in the context of very stimulative monetary policy and rising commodity prices, we think fears of a deflationary outcome are overblown. |
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They went all that way just to be in some overblown conference? |
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However, don't think Queen Mary 2 is another clone of the lumbering, simpering, overblown jolly boats wallowing and waddling around the world's sunshine destinations. |
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By the end of that same year, share prices were collapsing, as it became clear that expectations of imminent wealth from the Americas were overblown. |
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Finally back to the Russian colourists for the complete Firebird ballet, an overblown and tedious score which really needs the definition of stage action to make it work. |
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With the advent of punk rock and technological changes in the late 1970s, progressive rock was increasingly dismissed as pretentious and overblown. |
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